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Re:I Forked Httpx by matheusmoreira on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @07:48AM (#47516068)
Everybody's got a different idea of what it means for a library to be "friendly" and "fully-featured" though. It's probably better to keep the standard library as minimal as possible in order to avoid enshrining bad software. Programming languages could have curated "standard distributions" instead that include all the commonly used "best practice" libraries at the time.
Re:I Forked Httpx by duskdozer on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @08:26AM (#47516419)
Re:I Forked Httpx by matheusmoreira on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @09:40AM (#47517229)
That situation should be avoided. People should have to create their own libraries until everyone empirically converges into a de facto standard that can then be made official.
Re:I Forked Httpx by zahlman on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @01:50PM (#47520817)
That isn't really what was proposed, and is an unnecessarily snarky way to respond.
Re:I Forked Httpx by duskdozer on Friday March 27, 2026 @05:07AM (#47540468)
Sorry, snark not intended.